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Only those who can afford to install solar panels benefit from government-endorsed benefits.

The state Court of Appeals has reversed its own decisions in two cases involving school buses that caused damage while delivering meals to students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In decisions released Tuesday, Judge Jeff Carpenter explained the new rulings favoring the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Alexander County school boards.

North Carolina’s second-highest court will decide in the months ahead whether the state Utilities Commission made a mistake when it changed the way utility companies credit owners of rooftop solar panels for the energy they produce. A three-judge appellate panel heard an hour of oral arguments on the topic Wednesday morning.

The state Court of Appeals has ruled that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must pay into a state retirement fund for officers working for its campus police agency. The decision Tuesday reversed part of a lower court’s ruling against officers who filed suit against CMS in 2019.

Five county school boards and trustees at one state community college are dropping their court appeals for refunds of money paid to the state retirement system in pension-spiking cases. If they had won their legal battle, refunds would have totaled more than $434,000, not counting at least five years of interest.